Hey people, I just bought a hm100jc samsung usb storage drive and cant seem to get it working.........i think i may need to do something to my bios but i dont even know how to get into it.....I have an asus a3n laptop and any help i can get would be great thanks,

When you insert the usb plug to the laptop, after that type dmesg to see if it is seen.

If no other usb, sata, or fireiwre drives exist hen it will more than lekily be /dev/sda with the first partition as /dev/sda1

Brian

Not really sure what i am looking for to be honest it's quite a list.

It should at the very end since it was the last thing it will see.
Should talk about USB somehow. May depend on what USB controller you have.
Do know the USB controller you have?
Post output of /sbin/lspci and /sbin/lsmod

Brian

Expat: should look like this:
If you do not see something similar then your kernel does not support USB mass storage devices (or perhaps you need to load a module), and you will have to build a new kernel. USB mass storage is in the USB drivers section of the kernel config.

this is what i get for lsmod but i cant seem to find /sbin/lspci at all

Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 6272 0
zlib_deflate 22680 1 ppp_deflate
zlib_inflate 18304 1 ppp_deflate
bsd_comp 6272 0
i915 19456 1
drm 63636 2 i915
pcmcia 24968 8
backlight 5504 0
lcd 5376 0
speedstep_lib 4228 0
acpi_cpufreq 6276 1
freq_table 4612 1 acpi_cpufreq
cpufreq_userspace 4576 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
video 16260 0
battery 10244 0
container 4608 0
fan 4740 0
button 6800 0
thermal 13576 0
processor 24116 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
ac 4996 0
asus_acpi 11924 0
zc030x 117880 0
spca5xx 300056 0
videodev 9856 2 zc030x,spca5xx
usbhid 43264 0
usb_storage 65600 0
af_packet 22152 4
ehci_hcd 31368 0
uhci_hcd 31504 0
usbcore 117368 7 zc030x,spca5xx,usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
dm_mod 57344 0
evdev 9088 0
tsdev 7360 0
psmouse 26632 0
8250_pnp 8576 0
ide_floppy 17920 0
sg 33952 0
sr_mod 17700 0
ide_cd 39812 1
cdrom 38560 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
nls_iso8859_1 4224 1
nls_cp437 5888 1
vfat 13440 1
fat 39580 1 vfat
sd_mod 15504 0
scsi_mod 89416 4 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod
ohci1394 33796 0
ieee1394 315700 1 ohci1394
yenta_socket 21896 2
rsrc_nonstatic 10368 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 48308 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
8139too 25600 0
mii 4992 1 8139too
crc32 4352 1 8139too
snd_intel8x0 32064 1
snd_ac97_codec 74616 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 50976 0
snd_mixer_oss 18304 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 89480 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24964 1 snd_pcm
snd 55172 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9696 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9860 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
intel_agp 21916 1
agpgart 33576 3 drm,intel_agp
lp 11204 0
parport_pc 35012 1
parport 35272 2 lp,parport_pc
autofs4 19076 2
pppoe 14656 0
pppox 3848 1 pppoe
ppp_synctty 10112 0
ppp_async 11648 1
crc_ccitt 2176 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 30228 10 ppp_deflate,bsd_comp,pppoe,pppox,ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 7680 1 ppp_generic
8250_pci 18176 0
8250 21892 2 8250_pnp,8250_pci
serial_core 22144 1 8250
reiserfs 260212 1
ide_disk 16256 4

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Sorry i found the lspci but not in /sbin rather it was in /bin ........... here it is...

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCIController (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
0000:01:05.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
0000:01:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)

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Well it would appear you have kernel support.
Look in your dmesg to see what device name it has been given, and mount it somewhere.

ok here is my dmesg report........the real problem i think is just me,,,,,,,i don't know how to mount or even enter my bios ......but here it is anyways....thanks again


table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000018000000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000180 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0030)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 184k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 28)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 12)
ACPI: Power Resource [GFAN] (off)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x290-0x29f has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x230-0x23f has been reserved
Machine check exception polling timer started.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1160962658.896:0): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HTS424040M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: ASUS SCB-2424V, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Software Suspend Core.
Software Suspend LZF Compression Driver registered.
Software Suspend Swap Writer registered.
PM: Reading swsusp image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI wakeup devices:
P0P1 LAN0 CBS0 CBS1 P394 MPCI MODM USB1 USB2 USB3 EHCI SLPB
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
SplashFX: Loaded, VESA mode=0x0103 (800x600x8).
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1739KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Software Suspend 2.1.8.2: You need to use a resume2= command line parameter to tell Software Suspend 2 where to look for an image.
Software Suspend 2.1.8.2: Resume2 parameter is empty. Suspending will be disabled.
Software Suspend 2.1.8.2: Missing or invalid storage location (resume2= parameter). Please correct and rerun lilo (or equivalent) before suspending.
ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first block 18,max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1)
ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem).
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
Adding 10241428k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 6
PCI: setting IRQ 6 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 6 (level, low) -> IRQ6
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: Registered protocol family 24
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 196M
agpgart: Detected 8060K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
hw_random: RNG not detected
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.5 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 6 (level, low) -> IRQ6
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49511 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd067c400, 00:11:d8:a8:12:9e, IRQ 5
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 6 (level, low) -> IRQ6
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:01:05.0 [1043:1894]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000, PCI irq 6
Socket status: 30000006
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.1[B] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:01:05.1 [1043:1894]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000, PCI irq 5
Socket status: 30000006
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.2[C] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[5] MMIO=[fe8ff800-fe8fffff] MaxPacket=[2048]
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is obsolete, and will be removed soon!
SCSI subsystem initialized
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e01800032c8965]
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
floppy0: Unable to grab IRQ6 for the floppy driver
input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 5, io base 0xd480
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 5, io base 0xd800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 5, io base 0xd880
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 4
PCI: setting IRQ 4 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 4, pci mem 0xfeb7fc00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 2-1.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-1.1: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
usb 2-1.3: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 2-1.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1.3
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
spca5xx: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
/build/cvs/2005.04.25_13.44.57/build/projects/kernel/k2.6/modules/spca5xx/k2.6.11/modules_standard/xandros-spca5xx-2.6.11-x1-20050419.x.1.0/build/spca5xx-20050419/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Type Vimicro Zc301P
/build/cvs/2005.04.25_13.44.57/build/projects/kernel/k2.6/modules/spca5xx/k2.6.11/modules_standard/xandros-spca5xx-2.6.11-x1-20050419.x.1.0/build/spca5xx-20050419/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:8174] Camera type JPEG
usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
/build/cvs/2005.04.25_13.44.57/build/projects/kernel/k2.6/modules/spca5xx/k2.6.11/modules_standard/xandros-spca5xx-2.6.11-x1-20050419.x.1.0/build/spca5xx-20050419/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.56.01 registered
/build/cvs/2005.04.25_13.44.57/build/projects/kernel/k2.6/modules/zc030x/k2.6.11/modules_standard/xandros-zc030x-2.6.11-x1-20050329.x.1.0/build/zc030x/zc030x_main.c: [usb_zc030x_init:897] Loading experimental zc030x...

usbcore: registered new driver zc030x
Asus Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.29
unsupported, trying default values, supply the developers with your DSDT
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (off-line)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (56 C)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Fan [FN00] (off)
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
acpi-cpufreq: CPU0 - ACPI performance management activated.
Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: HM100JC Rev: 0000
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
[drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 0: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
[drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 1: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (#2)
mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Device sda not ready.
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 3
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 4
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 5
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 6
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 7
Device sda not ready.
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0

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It shows multiple USB controllers. 3 using uhci-hcd which is either 1.0 to 1.1 and 1 using ehci-hcd which is for 2.0 devices.
Try it in other ports if others exist.

Brian

Looks like it is found just fine. You just need to put one or more partitions and filesystems on it.

Try # cfdisk /dev/sda

and go from there...

Post the output of the command "fdisk -l"

ok here is what cfdisk says......i have primary partition and a swap parition and a reiserfs partition no others show up...........it doesnt seem to show my new 100 gb drive at all

fdisk-l says the following

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1276 2550 10241437+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 2551 4864 18587205 b W95 FAT32
freedom:~#

expat:

Your USB drive is /dev/sda not hda...